Re: unstable? nah. :-)

[The Fungi <fungi@yuggoth.org>]

On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 05:57:22PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
> This is the most sensible answer I've heard about this (and I've
> bitched about the limitation a lot). Maybe it's time for me to delve into
> the kernel source for the first time in 10 years.

I gather this was "fixed" in Linux 2.5.72 to no longer rely on the
jiffies counter to determine uptime anyway, and there are *numerous*
2.4.x patches to address this floating out there (check the LKML
archives for a plethora of examples that never got merged over the
last half-decade or so). To quote from the 2.5.72 changelog:

   Changes the uptime code to use the posix_clock_monotonic notion
   of uptime instead of the jiffies.  This time will track NTP
   changes and so should be better than your standard wristwatch (if
   your using ntp).

Of course, I could be misreading that...
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